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print·mak·ing (pr

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The artistic design and manufacture of prints, such as woodcuts or silk-screens.

printmaker n.

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Noun

printmaking - artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens

artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"

engraving, etching - making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them

serigraphy - the act of making a print by the silkscreen method

lithography - the act of making a lithographic print

Translations

printmaking [ˈprɪntmeɪkɪŋ] N → grabado m

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